Sport: Seattle Slew Strides Home by Two

When he came up for auction at a 1975 summer sale of Kentucky yearlings,
he was just Hip No. 128, an anonymous colt with an awkward bearing and
a slightly skewed front foot. He was gaveled off at the paltry price,
by thoroughbred standards, of $17,500, and led away to his new owners,
Karen and Mickey Taylor. It seemed hardly an auspicious unionan
unassuming yearling and a stable whose racing silks were just two years
and a handful of horses old.